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Mar 22: Jamestown massacre. May 6: The Battle of Wimpfen. Jun 20: The Battle of H chst. Year 1622 (MDCXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar. Events <onlyinclude> January–June - January 1 – In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.
- January 7 – Germany and Transylvania signs Peace of Nikolsburg.
- February 8 – King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
- March 12 – Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila, Isidore the Farmer and Philip Neri are canonized as saints by Pope Gregory XV.
- March 22 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
- April 19 – Richelieu is made Cardinal.
- April 22 – Hormuz is captured from the Portuguese by an Anglo-Persian force.
- April 27 – Thirty Years' War: A Skirmish at Mingolsheim is fought between Protestant forces under Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich of Baden-Durlach, against Imperial forces under Tilly. The Protestants win, but afterwards Tilly links up with a Spanish Army under Gonzalo de C rdoba, greatly increasing his strength.
- May – Huguenot rebellions: The huguenot city of Royan is taken by royal forces after a short siege.
- May 6 – Thirty Years' War: While waiting for the Protestant forces of Christian of Brunswick to join them, Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich of Baden-Durlach split up their forces as a diversion for the Imperial army of Tilly. Their plan fails, as Tilly manages to cut off Georg Friedrich at Wimpfen. At the ensuing Battle of Wimpfen, Georg Friedrich's army is almost completely destroyed.
- May 13 – The Eendracht, a VOC ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australian soil, is wrecked off the western coast of Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies.
- May 20 – Ottoman Sultan Osman II is strangled by rebelling Janissaries, who revolted when they heard rumours that Osman II was planning to move against them.
- May 25 – The English ship Tryall, which left Plymouth, England for Batavia (now Jakarta), wrecks on the Tryal Rocks, 9 months later (wreck discovered in 1969).
- June 11 – Huguenot rebellions: The huguenot city of N grepelisse is taken after a short siege by royal forces. The entire population of the city is subsequently massacred, and the city is burned to the ground.
- June 20 – Thirty Years' War: Imperial forces under Tilly attempt to prevent Christian of Brunswick from moving his army across the Main river to link up with Mansfeld. At the Battle of H chst, Tilly manages to inflict considerable casualties on the Protestant forces, as well as seizing Brunswick's baggage train. Nonetheless, the bulk of Brunswick's forces manage to unite with Mansfeld.
- June 24 – Dutch-Portuguese War: The outnumbered Portuguese forces successfully defend Macau from the Dutch fleet in the Battle of Macau, keeping a Portuguese foothold in the Far East.
July–December - July 13 – Thirty Years' War: After Mansfeld fails to relieve the siege of Heidelberg, Frederick V, Elector Palatine, cancels Mansfeld's contract and disbands his army. The unemployed army of Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick is subsequently hired by the Dutch.
- July 13 or July 14 – English and Dutch ships defeat the Portuguese near Mozambique.
- July 18 – Eighty Years' War: Bergen-op-Zoom is besieged by a Spanish army under the command of Ambrogio Spinola.
- August 29 – Thirty Years' War: While on their way to relieve the Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom in the Netherlands, the army of Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick is blocked by a Spanish army led by Gonzalo de C rdoba. In the Battle of Fleurus, Cordoba manages to fight off the Protestant assault. The next day, Cordoba surprises the retreating Protestant army with his cavalry, resulting in the destruction of most of the Protestant army.
- September 19 – Thirty Year's War: Heidelberg, the capital of the Electoral Palatinate, is taken by the Imperial army of Tilly after a three-month siege.
- October 2 – Eighty Years' War: After a siege of 86 days, Bergen-op-Zoom is relieved by a Dutch army led by Maurice of Nassau and Ernst von Mansfeld.
- October 18 – Huguenot rebellions: The first Huguenot rebellion ends with the signing of the Treaty of Montpellier.
- October 27 – Huguenot rebellions: The inconclusive Naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-R is fought between the Huguenot fleet of La Rochelle commanded by Jean Guiton, and a royal fleet under the command of Charles of Guise.
Date unknown - Dutch ships under Joachim Swartenhondt, while escorting a convoy, repel a Spanish squadron near Gibraltar.
- tienne Br l is the first European to see Lake Superior.
- Portugal loses control of the island of Ormus, after 107 years.
- Albertus Magnus is beatified, and Teresa of Avila is canonized, by the Roman Catholic Church.
- Spanish galleon Nuestra Se ora de Atocha sinks off the Florida Keys, while carrying copper, 35 tons of silver, 161 pieces of gold, tobacco, and indigo (wreck discovered 1985).
- "Rosicrucianism furor" in Paris.[1]
- War between the Netherlands and Spain recommences after the Twelve Years' Truce (1609 1621).
- First record of bottled spring water in England at Holy Well, Malvern.
</onlyinclude> Births Deaths - January 23 – William Baffin, English explorer (born 1584)
- February 19 – Sir Henry Savile, English educator (born 1549)
- April 24 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Roman Catholic missionary (born 1577)
- May 3 – Pedro P ez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1564)
- May 15 – Petrus Plancius, astronomer and cartographer (born 1552)
- May 20 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (born 1604)
- July 1 – William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (born 1575)
- November 22 – Pierre Biard, French settler, and Jesuit missionary (born 1567)
- December 28 – Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (born 1567)
- date unknown
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